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While environmentalists generally laud these efforts, corporate pledges to go green tend to be the first casualties when business gets tough, and enviros often criticize the promises as "greenwash"--really, business as usual. In 2000, Ford Motor lit up the Birkenstock crowd by promising to improve SUV fuel economy 25% by 2005; three years later, the firm reneged amid a steep sales slump and $6.4 billion in losses. Ford has started issuing reports on its environmental impact and is taking steps to address global warming. But nowhere in the publicity efforts do you hear that the firm is part...
...will work is to get rid of the Brussels bureaucrats and have a civil service that is responsible only to the elected government of Europe. Gerhard Heinzelmann Gravesend, England The E.U. constitution is dead, but it would be fatal for Europe if Brussels continued with business as usual. We don't need another constitutional convention with myriad special interests complicating the process. Let's have each member state provide a representative to a committee to produce a draft constitution containing only the fundamentals of the Union, its aims and basic rules of cooperation. One of the major flaws...
...familiarity with a brand plays a much more important role than it does with the general public. "Word of mouth is huge," says Lakshmi Bhargave, 25, a graphic artist in Chicago. "We have this theory that between Indians, it's more like two degrees of separation rather than the usual six." So firms show up at desi events and subtly introduce the message: We're a part of your community too. Wells Fargo sponsored a Bollywood concert in Cupertino, Calif., in June, setting up a table in the lobby and dispensing brochures touting its new money-transfer service to India...
...constitution is dead, but it would be fatal for Europe if Brussels continued with business as usual. We don't need another constitutional convention with myriad special interests complicating the process. Let's have each member state provide a representative to a committee to produce a draft constitution containing only the fundamentals of the Union, its aims and basic rules of cooperation. One of the major flaws of the current draft was that it was not digestible by ordinary people. After sufficient public promotion, the new draft should be submitted to a referendum in all member states on the same...
...jarring sound of screeching, badly maintained train brakes out my window. Nevertheless, I managed to get showered and dressed in time to make it to my train (no time for breakfast, though), and I arrived at Grand Central terminal without incident (except a splitting headache, of course). As usual, I brushed past the crowds of gawking tourists, propelled by the daily stream of corporate suits hurrying to their jobs...